doobin

Ah, the good ol 5 gallon refurb....

This looks good value- better construction to my eyes than the RSL one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-2-Ton-Mini-Digger-HD-Grapple-3yr-warranty-Inc-Vat-JCB-CAT-Takeuchi-Case/113259392828?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D57923%26meid%3D30770e518ded49a69fbc90f949b522ca%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D24%26sd%3D181046126928%26itm%3D113259392828&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 Nice big pins and bushes along with grease nipples.

I mounted my grapple from my 1.7 to my 1.2t (via the quick hitch) and it's perfectly functional. Lifted three oak sleepers with it. I've yet to use it on a narrow access job but it's ready. Thumbs are just so pig awkward compared to a proper grapple. What make is your 1.2t? That Kelfri looks value for money. Not the best grapple design but still way better (and cheaper!!) than a thumb. But I think the stars would have to align for it to fit your particular machine with no modifications. I gave £450 for this grapple seven years ago. Everyone told me to spend more, I'd only bend it etc. It's made me tens of thousands and I've only bent it slightly once- easily fixed. I think if you go for a Digbits one or similar you won't be disappointed. So much better than a thumb. If you're buying it for woodland clearance it's a no brainer compared to a thumb.

10cm is nothing. Don't waste the customer's time messing about with a Tirfor on hundreds of stems- get a bloke in with a digger and grapple not a bucket and have done with it.

Make sure you take them off your labourer first.

Looks like cement bound asbestos. Non-notifiable in the UK, which means that you don't need to notify HSE before you take it down and stack it for collection by a hazardous waste company- once you've done your joke of a day's training (my digger driver fell asleep in the middle of it ?) Not sure what the situation is in France. I'd just crack on, and if you're worried wear a respirator or wet the sheets. It's pretty safe as it's bound with cement- only danger is if you raise a dust, by grinding for example.

They don't weigh much, and you can remove the crane from the base when you're not needing it to get mroe payload. I'd be surprised if they weigh more than 80kg- have one here which I never got round to fitting. Depending upon what you're lifting you may get away with no support leg, however you'll want to be compentant at fitting it and strengthening the body if required. They won't like being bolted through a sheet of ply on an ally body for example.

Maybe, just maybe, we should stop importing third world trash and undesireables, and stop subsidising our own undesireables to breed. Then, we wouldn't need to concrete over the countryside to house them all. Just a thought.

I want to agree with the Coopers reccomendation, but my sidewalls are starting to show small cracks after only two years.

That's cause we've got ten fingers....

Yes, they're decent. Take a lot longer to charge too- definately extra capacity in them. They are noticeably bigger and heavier though. The genuine Makita battery chargers keep trying to restart the charging cycle on them, or gives up with an error. The voltage usually shows it as charged however. I've just unpacked a new Chinky twin battery charger, so will see if that makes a better job of them- they're on charge as i write this after some heavy fab work this afternoon.

Sounds like they didn't want the hassle of you returning them. I don't think you'd be disappointed if you bought them. Even if they only work out at 5ah rather than 6, it's still half price.

I'm surprised they didn't reply in Chinese! To be fair I use them all the time in the battery grinders for heavy fabrication work, but it's so long since I used a genuine battery I don't know how they'd compare.

Haven't watched the video, but I've run nothing but knockoff batteries from 3-9ah for five years now and had no problems so long as you don't buy the cheapest of the cheap. Currently have 6x6ah and 2x9AH (for the ginders) 'Waitley' seem to be decent- they're the ones with the little voltmeter on them. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18V-9000mAh-Li-ion-Battery-For-Makita-BL1830-With-LED-Power-Display-9Ah/222810481085?hash=item33e08a21bd:g:B5EAAOSwdc5bYtax&frcectupt=true

I dunno. I mean, its kind of cool, I guess. But the thing I like about a Stihl clearing saw is that I don't have to do anything other than put petrol in it and it just soldiers on for years. I mean, all this thing does is record the hours the engines been run, right? Who actually 'plans maintenance' on a strimmer?? I suppose the main application will be making sure that guys are actually working whilst on site, under the guise of 'planning maintenance on the saw'. Stihl are probably just hoping to gain more saw services from big companies who adopt this.

Here we go, from accountingweb.com " Looking through the MTD for VAT API, there is currently only one POST request (method of sending information) which looks like this: { "periodKey": "#001", "vatDueSales": 100.00, "vatDueAcquisitions": 100.00, "totalVatDue": 200.00, "vatReclaimedCurrPeriod": 100.00, "netVatDue": 100.00, "totalValueSalesExVAT": 500, "totalValuePurchasesExVAT": 500, "totalValueGoodsSuppliedExVAT": 500, "totalAcquisitionsExVAT": 500, "finalised": true } Which means that at least for now, there is nothing HMRC have implemented for sending anything beyond 9 boxes via MTD." Key word is 'for now' I guess.

Yes but only the total figure is submitted via the new API. There is no data upon individual items submitted yet, and apparently no plans to do so as yet. I agree it's probably on the agenda, but it's not happening currently. Of coure, should you be chosen for investigation they will go through your receipts with a fine tooth comb....

From browsing accounting forums trying to get to the bottom of this, it appears that this is not the case. It's the same nine boxes that you currently enter in the portal, but you can't enter them 'manually' via the keyboard. Cue the hundreds of minnow software developers trying to flog a really basic program for £££ that takes figures from a spreadsheet and submits it via the HMRC API. I can't find the link but someone had looked at the code of the API and confirmed that it was just the nine boxes being submitted. I also read that the were also no plans currently in the pipeline to take any further data as donnk alludes to. Which makes rather a mockery of the huge clusterfuck that HMRC have fosted upon buisineses large and small- it's for no apparent benefit other than the avoidance of 'fat fingers' when submitting data. Yes, I'm sure it will all link up eventually- but they could at least have waited and developed free bridging software rather than simply throw the less informed to the mercy of Sage et al, and ever increasing subscriptions. That's what really stinks about the whole affair. It's not just small business who use spreadsheets- it's massive corporations whose ins and outs don't fit neatly into 'sage simple all in one accounting'.

Your main problem will not be the camera, but getting a 4g SIM card with a fixed ip. Very pricey last time I looked. You’ll need a decent battery to run a camera all night, and a large solar array to make sure it charges the next cloudy day. An alarm system with motion sensors that texts you is far easier to install as a battery powered system. Generally speaking, pir or beam sensors are more accurate than a camera at detecting motion- cameras tend to give an awful lot of false alarms. I have both, and whilst I’m afraid you can’t beat checking the camera when the alarm goes off, compared to getting out of bed and driving down there, I’m not sure how feasible a camera will be in your situation

There were three blondes walking through the woods, when they came across some tracks.\ "Aw look!" said the first blonde. "Wabbit tracks!!" "No" says the second. I think you'll find they're deer tracks. The third blonde is looking agitated. "They look like bear tracks! We'd best get out of here!" she says. "Don't be silly", responds the first blonde. "It's only a fluffy bunny wabbit!" "No, they're deer tracks! I've seen them in a book!" interjects the second blonde. "I'm telling you, we need to go now, or the bear will eat us!!" whimpers the third. "Rabbit tracks!" "No, deer tracks!!" "Bear tracks! Come on, LET'S GO!! " And they were still arguing when the train hit them.

I missed that bit. What modern engine still uses oil bath filters??

There's definately something wrong with the air intake system somewhere. I'd get an independant report. A machine should stop running (first at high revs) due to lack of air when an air filter cloggs. There has to have been another route in for the dirty air. My money would be upon a bad union in the pipework. If the same company who fitted the new engine are the ones telling you you have to pay for a third, it's likely they discovered the cause of the problem whilst investigating, and fixed the leak to avoid liability for not fitting it correctly 600 hours ago, sorry to say. How long did it take for you to rack up 600 hours?

I thought Stihl were phasing out/had phased out 4-mix? No?

When felling bigger stuff (2-3 ft diameter Scots pine) I tend to fell with the MS462, then switch to the MS241 with a 16" bar for snedding. I've never found one saw that fits properly for this type of work, and it doesn't hurt to have a backup saw on site.

I don't know what you're on about Andy. Any pikey worth their salt has a jammer to render a tracker useless.